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Wish the hs top decks site’s back-end team was competent enough to include this in the “Neutral Card” field of deck filters. Maybe running a database-heavy, user-interactive site via a Wix design template or with one community college IT grad isn’t a great idea…

No. Just no. I feel you are comparing the rest to frostmourne instead of…you know, every freaking card in hearthstone…these are all amazingly powerful effects for their cost. I’m only a little meh about death grip but that’s still really good for 2 crystals.

So i got an idea for this with Priest. So first you try to bring out a copy of Lich with Barnes or Shadow Essence. Then try to make copies with Mirage Caller and Herald Volazj. Then use Onyx Bishop, Resurrect, and Eternal Servitude to bring the copies back. Also Shadow Visions to make copies of the spells to get more. Its not going to be good but its going to be fun and try to go Ultra Value. Cant use Prince Taldaram since there are other 3 cost cards in the deck. Also Faceless Manipulator for more copies. Been doing this in wild with Ragnaros, Yesra, Baron, Cairne, and Sylvanas and its fun to just out value since 50% of the time. And like i said, its not good but its fun to watch your opponent struggle to deal with everything or just give up once they realized they cant do much. Also Obsidian Statue is going to be a great addition to this.

Lol so I guess its bad because of one thing. GUY LOOK ITS BAD BECAUSE OF “BLANK”! Seriously if you judge every idea and card just because of a card in the same or another class then technically everything is bad and you should not play the game. Seriously that thought process is the same thing is MTG just because it can be countered or removed by and removal spell. Shit players always will have some reason to say something is bad. Yes that exact thing happened but then I went and made about 8 copies of Obsidian Statue and wreaked him.

I think this card is PERFECT. Not because of it’s stats or its ability, but because of the fact that it’s difficult as shit to kill, just like WoW’s Lich King (WoTLK anyway). People might say that the HS Lich King needs to be nerfed because of how insane its body and effect is, but that’s how WoW’s Lich King was. And while you might HS has it harder because you’ll see it pretty much every game, WoW players felt the same way about pre-nerfed WoW Lich King. This is Blizzard’s way of putting the golden age of WoW into HS. THAT’S why this card is perfect just as it is. 1 year and a half of this. jUsT wHaT i WaNt, GoOd JoB bLizZaRd

It’s actually way easier to kill than Ysera. 8 health is much lower than 12. It’s taunt, so it can be attacked right away. Ysera can be guarded by other taunt minion. It has 8 attack so it can be deathed by priest unlike Ysera. It can be killed by Black Knight (if taunt is gonna be more present in the meta that will be a thing)

I think it’s a good card but not so resistent like Ysera. We have seen in the kibler reveal stream that this guy never sticks on board for too long. There were always multiple ways of dealing with it.

m8 you ever seen someone play Ysera in constructed nowdays? No shit 8 health is lower than 12. But who cares about 12 health when you get hit in the face for lethal afte playing a 9 mana do nothing. This card impacts the board immediately and 8 and 9 mana is a big difference too.
Ysera is still bae though if the meta slows down enough.

dude, see anyone playing 8 mana 8-8’s except rag? They aren’t hard to kill. Polymorph, meteor, hex, shadow word death, equality plus anything, execute, hunters mark. These are all cards that are played that kill or essentially kill it. See anyone playing ironbark prot?? The stats aren’t OP but 8 for an 8-8 taunt that can give you some amazing cards (1 guaranteed) is awesome, because it combines good stats and a great effect

Now you are confusing me m8. Not sure if trolling, but essentially you said exactly the same thing I meant. Never have I said that it is exceptionally hard to kill. Except for shadow word death all the removal-options you listed work for literally every card in the game (?). I thought that was obvious. My point was that it has playable “vanilla stats” with taunt and gives you an amazing card at the end of your turn for 1 mana less than Ysera and impacts the board immediately (taunt) giving you the option to stop some bleeding, if it doesn’t get removed. That makes it almost strictly better than Ysera and a good card if the meta doesn’t change drastically.

I don’t know guys, I don’t know… This is the Lich King!! This should be an awesome card but it seems just… average… I mean: the card itself is nice but, what about the spells that it generates? Anti-Magic Shell works only if you have a good board, Frostmourne needs 3 turns and needs to kill 3 minions to proc its effect (while you get damage attacking the opponent’s minions). Doom Pact and Obliterate could be more negative than positive. And Army of the Dead reminds me of Varian Wrynn who’s never been played. The other 3 cards are good but, in my opinion, Ysera’s +5/+5 or Ysera’s deal 5 damage to everyone except Ysera herself are way better. I don’t know you guys but I feel a bit disappointed.

this card is really good. i know for a fact that this must of been one of the most difficult cards to create that lives up to the original source. They can pull a deathwing and make another version of the lich king in a future set.

Yeah, uh, don’t really know what to add. It’s pretty good. It does a little bit of everything, and being 8 mana instead of Ysera’s 9 is a really big deal. Some of the cards are obviously better than others (which will also change based on the situation), but in general it’s just really good. Taunt Warrior wants it, the theoretical Taunt Druid wants it, Control decks want it, value decks want it, Midrange decks probably want it… there’s a lot of competition for deck slots right now so it probably won’t make it into every deck, but many decks will at least give it a lot of consideration, and it will probably make it into at least one top tier deck.

This card is the most overated card since Troggzor the earthinater. The stats are terrible, it should’ve been a 10/10 and even then it wouldn’t have been played. The effect isn’t good just use Arfus. This card is hard countered by the black knight and spell breaker. This is why I rate this card 1.5/10.

Ummmm….not countered at all by spell breaker. You still have a giant 8/8 body and got a pretty good card in hand. That’s like saying spell breaker counters Ysera or Antonidas. Yeah, sure he removes one of the things that make them good but you’ve normally still gotten some value from them and there’s still a reasonably large body. Not to mention how good This good this card is with the new Druid legendary, and it can be discovered from Stonehill defender. Also can be good in Shaman with ancestral Spirit.

Lol dude are you retarded? This is Ysera for one mana less and with taunt and I won’t think Black Knight will see much play in the next time. If you spend your 4 mana to silence it, it will still be an 8/8 that has to be removed. This card is just VERY STRONG.

This seems like a really good card. The only problem is there doesn’t seem to be much of an overarching theme to the cards. One of the things that made Ysera so effective was that you always were near guaranteed to get a good card from her. While many of the possible Death Knight cards are pretty good, about as many more have extremely limited uses.

Have yet to see what these new death knights are. It would be interesting to see the current hero cards in minion form, but I doubt that they are going to be like that. Other than that, this is a solid card, think druid 8/8 work taunt with free card generation. Will definitely see play on control if the death knights are any good at all.